Error enabling photo stream "iphoto was unable to connect to Photo Stream"

Signing in and out of different/dummy accounts did not solve the problem for the photostream activation on my SSD photo library.

I was having this same problem until just a few moments ago. I cleared out a bunch of stuff stored in the Keychain Access.

Wish I could say what specifically did it, but it worked.

These were my steps:

1. Close iPhoto, and sign out of iCloud

2. Clear the keychain (or maybe just the issue area if someone can pin-point it)

3. Sign into iCloud, open iPhoto, and then enable Photo Stream.

Sorry, but for those of you who have fixed their photo stream, can you confirm if you have your iPhoto Library (or User folder) on a separate volume from your boot drive or not? I can't help but wonder if there are two separate issues being discussed here.

I have a SSD boot drive and my iPhoto Library is on a separate HDD — which is causing the photo stream to be inaccessible.

My iPhoto Library resides on the main HD, along with the iPhoto application and the OS.

Sorry for not specifying. My iPhoto Library and User Folder are on my boot drive.

Is your separate HDD an external, or secondary internal?

Right. Thanks for your clarification and I'm glad you were able to solve your problem.

However, please keep in mind that the first half of this thread is about a still unresolved photostream issue relating to those with SSD boot drives and a iPhoto Library/User folder on a separate HDD. My HDD is internal with symlinks from the SSD boot drive.

Interesting. And, again, I apologize. I skimmed through most of the posts to see if there was a resolution- I missed the part where the separate drives became pinnacle.

Have you tried copying iPhoto into the HDD, and then attempting to enable Photo Stream?

I know that a Photo Stream, linked with a particular iCloud account, doesn't work when the iCloud account is logged in for different user accounts on the same computer. Maybe this is an issue along similar lines (ex. photos being pulled from a different drive than the Photo Stream enabled iPhoto)...

No worries. SSDs tend to be very expensive, though extremely fast. So most people don't buy very large SSDs and just use them for boot drives. Mine is only 50GB — there's no way I could move my User folder onto it.

I may have choosen my words poorly... Is the iPhoto application and your iPhoto Library on the same drive? Or is the application on the SSD, and the iPhoto library on the HDD?

If they are on separate drives, try enabling Photo Stream after having them on the same drive- both on SSD, and then both on HDD. Or, vice versa.

If Photo Stream will still not enable, then you can rule out the two separate drives as an issue. If it works, then I would suggest either waiting for Apple to patch the issue, or giving Mike's solution a go.

Here's the setup...

50GB SSD: OS X and all applications (including iPhoto and Apeture)

750GB HDD: My User folder (including iPhoto and Apeture Libraries)

There's no way I'm moving the photo Libraries to the SSD — there's not enough space. And there's no way I'm moving the iPhoto or Apeture application to the HDD — it's too slow.

I'll just wait for a patch. Is there a way to know if Apple is aware of the issue?

How about creating a new iphoto library in a folder on the SSD? Use a screen shot or something to test the Photo Stream.

Assuming Apple doesn't check these discussions, the only way to know for sure is to contact technical support.

Thanks for the suggestion. I have no doubt that the photostream will work on the same disk. I just don't think it will work when I go back to separate disks. But, it's worth a shot. I'll give it a shot tomorrow!

Im working with a library on a separate hdd connected via FireWire. My boot drive is hdd not SSD, and my aperture is on my boot drive. The trick is to reset the configuration by enabling a different iCloud account. Once you can successfully use photo stream with a different iCloud account (not user account) you should be able to switch back. This seems to work for most.

Hello!

I've solved this problem on my computer, at least partially.

Here's my configuration before: I have an iPhoto Library on an external USB drive ( mounted on /Volumes/Data ), and the folder ~/Library/ILifeAssetManagement was actually a symlink linked to /Volumes/Data/Application Support/ILifeAssetManagement. And the "deny file-write-data" errors also appeared in my /private/var/log/system.log.

Here's how to fix it:

1. Exit iPhoto.app.
2. Make a real directory ~/Library/ILifeAssetManagement ( You may need to delete the previous symlink with this name ).
3. Copy everthing except the assets folder to it.
4. Make a symlink named assets in that folder and link it to "/Volumes/Data/Application\ Support/ILifeAssetManagement/assets".

And it's done.

What's I'm not sure, is that after you've done this, there will be errors in /private/var/system.log, like:

Unable to create asset storage directory file://localhost/Users/llyuan/Library/Application%20Support/iLifeAssetManagemen t/assets/sub/01df72c7776b52ef219b94b674c6029c6266806276/: Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=513 "You don't have permissions to store “01e01052b1d0e251904c80e88e9c805c97b36acb2f” in the folder “sub”." UserInfo=0x1100914c0 {NSFilePath=/Users/llyuan/Library/Application Support/iLifeAssetManagement/assets/sub/0138abaf415b19ae086953224116cc0f860a5e1 0c1, NSUnderlyingError=0x110092180 "Operation can't be completed. Operation not permitted"}

Full message here: ( Sorry for those Chinese characters in the screenshot. )

I don't know what does that mean. The photos downloaded from Photo Stream, however, can be opened and I can confirm that they're full-sized, not just some thumbnails.

Hope this helps.

Similar problems here. In my specific case, it seems Keychain related.

My specifics: iPhoto Library moved to secondary HDD. User home directory and system OS on SSD. HOWEVER, I don't think this is related to the problem.

MY SOLUTION (Note that Steps 2-4 could probably be skipped, but this was my process...):

1) Log out of iCloud in System Preferences

2) Log in as different iCloud account

3) Enable PhotoStream (worked!)

4) Logged out of iCloud (prompted that Photostream would be disabled)

5) Deleted Keychain entries for original iCloud account (this was easy to identify because they were beside the dummy entries for the second iCloud account I used.

6) Re-log in as original iCloud account in System Preferences, enable Photostream

7) Re-open iPhoto. Select Photostream in left column

8) All good.